Expand Files Question

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting John Esak (Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:20:10 -0400):
[...]
> > > Windows Server
> > > Filepro 5.0
> > >
> > > Why would I get a message which states "Room for 0 more
> > records" when I try to expand files?  I have gigabytes of storage
> > available on the server.  I am trying to upgrade from 4.8 to 5.0
> > and I am getting this message when expanding files on my test server.
> >
> > 	filePro v5.0 and earlier doesn't know how to handle
> > 2 gigabytes (or larger) of hard drive space, so you have to
> > tell it "don't check for HD space". Set the environmental
> > variable PFNODF=NO.
>
> Okay, I'm going to byte on this one... I see you have PFNODF
> (NO-Disk-Free check... I assume) being set equal to NO.  Shouldn't
> it be YES?

Or the more-typical "ON", which is probably what she meant.

However, "ON", "TRUE", and "YES" will all work.

> And don't answer this too quickly, because on my BSD filePro niether
> answer makes it work really nicely. That is, PFNODF=YES will stop the
> free space check for restructuring, but causes a warning/question to
> come up every single time you enter ddefine... this is dumb. Why?
[...]

Note that 5.6.01 has already added PFNODFMSG=OFF to turn the warning
off.

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